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• Communicate and disseminate the core competencies to key stakehold- ers — academic deans, policymak- ers, and health care leaders — and launch an education campaign that makes the critical link between col- laborative health care teams and the provision of high-quality, safe, and cost-sensitive treatment.


• Prepare faculty for teaching students how to work effectively as part of a team and encourage all health profes- sions to use the competencies in their fields.


• Develop metrics for interprofessional education and collaborative care to help advance team-based competen- cies in teaching and practice.


• Forge partnerships among the aca- demic community, health care pro- viders, and government agencies to advance interprofessional education.


IPEC and the foundations believe


that establishing these core competen- cies for health professionals will provide the valuable transformative direction needed to improve the nation’s health care system.


recognize schools that, during a three- year period, graduate the greatest per- centage of students who choose first- year family medicine residency positions. At a time when the United States fac-


es a shortage of primary care physicians, filling the pipeline is vital to the health of America, said AAFP President Roland Goertz, MD, of Waco. “Family physicians are the bedrock of


primary care, and primary care is the foundation of a health care system that provides high-quality, effective, and ef- ficient care to patients,” he said. “It all begins with the medical schools and their faculty’s commitment to family medicine. Increasingly, medical schools are working toward building the primary care physician workforce, and we ap- plaud their efforts. The Top 10 Awards recognize schools’ consistent effort made over time.” The 2011 award recipients and the


percentage of graduates entering family medicine were:


• The University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sci- ences, 19.6 percent;


• The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, 18.9 percent;


• University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 17.1 percent;


Texas A&M College of Medicine gets AAFP award


The Texas A&M University Health Sci- ence Center College of Medicine was among 10 allopathic medical schools recently honored by the American Acad- emy of Family Physicians (AAFP) for contributing most to the pipeline of family physicians. A&M and the


Roland Goertz, MD


other schools were honored April 29 when AAFP pre- sented its Top 10 Awards during the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine


Annual Spring Conference. The awards July 2011 TEXAS MEDICINE 51


• University of Kansas School of Medi- cine, 16.3 percent;


• Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University, 16.3 percent;


• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, 15.8 percent;


• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences,15.8 percent;


• University of Minnesota Medical School, 15.6 percent;


• Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine; 15.3 per- cent, and


• Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota; 15 per- cent. n


Ken Ortolon is senior editor of Texas Medicine. You can reach him by telephone at (800) 880-1300, ext. 1392, or (512) 370-1392; by fax at (512) 370-1629; or by email at ken.ortolon@texmed.org.


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